Farmers' training
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 14, 2013:
A two day district level farmers' training programme organised by the Horticulture Department under the Central-sponsored scheme Horticulture Mission and North East Himalaya Region (HMNEH) began from today at Khuman Lampak Youth Hostel.
The training programme, said to be first of two such initiatives of the State's Horticulture Department is being participated by 20 trainee farmers each from the districts of Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Thoubal.
The 2nd phase training programme for the hill districts will be held from Feb 22 till March 1 at different places, informed training in-charge M Nabachandra Singh.
While the first day was confined to tutoring the farmers on theories about horticulture farming, the participants would visit cultivation sites for in-field studies as part of the programme's exposure trip.
Among others the farmers would visit vermiculture unit at Nongren, Nongada nursery farm operated by Educated Farmers' Association and the Orchid Farm in Khonghampat, which is a venture of Horticulture Department.
Nabachandra also declared that the department will provide vermi bags to the farmers free of cost to enable them practice vermiculture.
Moreover, requisite materials for undertaking horticulture farming, including nursery programmes would be distributed to the trainee farmers, he maintained.
As resource persons, vermiculture expect N Kumar Mangang of Imphal-based Mangang Agro Tech deliberated on 'vermiculture in vegetable crops', temperate expert Dhaljit Thiyam on 'Mushroom cultivation' and KVK, Wangbal Coordinator Dr M Thoithoi Singh.